Example sentences of "the first example [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One of the first examples to be discovered in animals was the opening of milk bottles in Britain by great tits , blue tits and coal tits .
2 The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ .
3 Unfortunately for the British Museum , the first examples of that reality experienced by the viewer on leaving the exhibition are the rooms containing its Roman collection .
4 One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse , it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast 's history .
5 Collectors are naturally anxious to secure , if they can , the first examples of the various media used for illustration .
6 RBP , BLG ( which also binds retinol and other hydrophobic ligands ) , insecticyanin and bilin-binding protein , the first examples of known 3-dimensional structure , all comprise similar cup-shaped antiparallel β -barrel frameworks with successive +1 topology , formed from strands linked by loops that differ between the proteins .
7 In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm .
8 These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government .
9 The sirens are cast solid , like Geometric bronzes , but the griffin-heads are the first examples in Greece of hollow-casting , another thing now learnt from the East of immense importance for Greek art ( below , pp. 50f . ) .
10 The first example of equipment redeployment came in 1982 when the then director ( Cyril Bleasdale ) , faced with a serious downturn on Great Western sub-sector services out of Paddington , decided to move ten HSTs to the Midland main line so that a badly needed improvement could be implemented on this potentially profitable and much neglected route .
11 This would be the first example of Community rules crossing the Atlantic .
12 Philips says this is the first example of a ‘ professional ’ steam iron to hit the British shops .
13 It provides the first example of BSI and NAMAS cooperating on a joint registration .
14 Then , in 1977 , came the first example of mass direct action in America .
15 But it was the failure of the Windscale Inquiry to represent adequately the protesters ' arguments which encouraged the first example of direct action in this country .
16 In the first example of his tenacity , he pointed out that there could be no guarantee that the government 's privatization plans would go ahead in their then current form and they might not happen at all .
17 More important is that this is the first example of a case in which a trust is set up using indirect words : the words are addressed to the trustee ; and they make the testator 's intentions plain enough , although they do not express any request for a transfer of property .
18 R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature .
19 It is the first example of such a cloud found outside a galaxy .
20 ‘ We 're trying to package that with Sony , using our anthology as the first example of the technology .
21 Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons .
22 The former included the North-West regional diploma in special needs , the first example of a course developed in total partnership between a university and a polytechnic which allowed students to take modules from either institution and also gave credit recognition to specific Open University and LEA courses .
23 This is the first example of the ‘ pre-emptive action ’ that was suggested in the UN secretary-general 's ‘ Agenda for Peace ’ .
24 The Czech prime minister , Vaclav Klaus , describes the deal as ‘ the first example of an untraditional approach . ’
25 The first example of the new programme is an audio chip intended for future Sparcstations .
26 So , that 's , that 's the first example of a very common condition .
27 The first example of inspection that we have chosen is the operation of HM Inspectorate in Britain .
28 There is good evidence for cooling flows in rich clusters and around individual galaxies but this is the first example of their occurring in compact groups .
29 Cigarettes could be lit from the output , and — in the first example of microwave cookery — the hand holding the cigarette became uncomfortably warm .
30 The idea of radiation from black holes was the first example of a prediction that depended in an essential way on both the great theories of this century , general relativity and quantum mechanics .
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